BRbrontitall·Jun 17, 2024
Not inline, but this was linked in a comment on HN a few days ago
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An introduction to ARM64 assembly on Apple Silicon Macs
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300 points · Open discussionThe book assumes running Darwin/OS X, which has consequences specific to that, eg https://github.com/below/HelloSilicon#listing-9-1 but one of the biggest changes is the GPU attached to the arm core, resulting in non-native Apple-specific code. It may not affect the ARM CPU core directly, but if someone is running on Apple Silicon you can assume MPS support whereas you cannot do that for ARM64 targets.
It might also be worth reiterating that this book is, itself, a port from the original, more generic ARM version.
In HelloSilicon – An introduction to assembly on Apple Silicon MacsHelloSilicon – An introduction to assembly on Apple Silicon Macs
350 points · Open discussionAn Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs
1 points · Open discussionRelated - M1 ARM assembly examples by Alex von Below: https://github.com/below/HelloSilicon
In Code in ARM Assembly: Registers ExplainedI believe the first attempts at doing something like this were back in July of 2020. https://github.com/below/HelloSilicon : Someone with an early Developer Transition Kit (pre-M1 release) worked to convert the code from "Programming with 64-Bit ARM Assembly Language" to the M1's syntax.
Porting additional textbooks to M1's (ARMv8) syntax could help a lot in terms of making assembly accessible to more people. I believe there's a lot of value in learning it on a particularly popular real-world platform like x86 or M1 - where it may directly translate to reverse engineering userspace applications without having to then learn another assembler language as you might if you started with, say, RISC-V.
Truthfully I think someone should really add the M1 syntax to the new version of VisUAL: https://github.com/scc416/Visual2 . I've been intending
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to work on that to go along with porting Bob Plantz' "Introduction to Computer Organization: ARM Assembly Language Using the Raspberry Pi" to ARMv8 for the same educational purpose but haven't quite found the time to really dive in. A tool like VisUAL2 could help a lot of people learn this even if they don't own an M1 themselves.
Very tangentially to all of this, I'd like to showcase https://github.com/cornell-brg/pydgin , which is a flexible toolkit for simulating ISA's in Python, and was used to help validate the first version of VisUAL during its own development.